Songbook/Banks of the Ohio
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Banks of the Ohio
19e-eeuwse ballad van een onbekende auteur.
Het lied lijkt romantisch, maar is eigenlijk een murder ballad: het gaat over een jongeman die zijn beminde verdrinkt in de Ohiorivier omdat ze niet met hem wil trouwen.
Banks of the Ohio
bewerken- Strofe 1
- I asked my C love to take a G walk
- Just to G7 walk a little C way
- As we walked along we F talked
- All about C our G wedding C day
- Refrein
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- And only C say that you'll be G mine
- And our G7 home will happy C be
- Down beside where the waters F flow
- Down on the C banks of the G Ohio C
- Strofe 2
- I took her C by her lily white G hand
- Led her G7 down where the waters C stand
- There I pushed her in to F drown
- And watched C as she G floated C down
- [Refrein]
- Strofe 3
- I started C home tween twelve and G one
- I cried, "My G7 God, what have I C done."
- I murdered the only woman I F loved
- Because she C would not G marry C me.
- [Refrein]
- Strofe 4
- The very next C morning about half-past G four
- the sheriff G7 came knocking on my C door
- He said, "Young man, come with me and F go
- Down to the C banks of the G Ohio. C
- [Refrein]